grace6 broken??

2004-10-20 Thread Glen Snyder
Hi. I'm running Sarge and wanted to know if this problem is just on my computer, and if there are any suggestions to fixing this, or if I should file a bug report. The grace install works fine with Sarge, but I can't get the install of grace6 to work. If I start with xmgrace, or gracebat, I get:

grub-disk

2004-03-14 Thread Glen Snyder
I just installed the grub-disk package from Sarge. There is no man or info page for Sarge.grub-doc isn't all that straightforward. As was mentioned in a previously posted grub-disk wishlist in bugreports it would be good to have a straigtforward instruction of how to take the

Re: mozillaprint freezes

2004-01-17 Thread Glen Snyder
I had the same problem on a home computerI did a couple of things at once, so I'm not sure which took care of it, so you might want to try one at a time. Sorry that I can't be more specific, this is probably overkill and someone can probably give you a more concise way of fixing things (I like

pop3vscan iptables question

2004-01-04 Thread Glen Snyder
I'd like to use pop3vscan to run clamscan. I added the following iptables rule: # /sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 110 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8110 I then went through the procedures in /etc/default/iptables so that the rule would remain after rebooting, but that doesn't

gconf gconf2 problem with Sarge

2003-11-29 Thread Glen Snyder
I've had a few hiccups lately with Sarge (on a linux box named tracer), that seem to be related to gconf and gconf2 which I first noticed when trying to start Galeon. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Glen Both gconf processes seem to be running: tracer:/home/glen# ps jaxwww

samba-client lprng kernel? problems

2003-10-01 Thread Glen Snyder
I recently recompiled my kernel using kernel-source-2.4.22 in testing. I included samba file system support in the kernel. Previously, I had no problem printing on two printers on different WIN200 machines on our network but now I can't. The print jobs just stay in the /spool/lpd/printer

Sarge dist-upgrade hiccup w/pxfonts

2003-06-19 Thread Glen Snyder
Hi all, I did a dist-upgrade yesterday with sarge, and had a problem. If I use apt-get -f install , I get the following error: Removing pxfonts ... chmod: failed to get attributes of `/etc/texmf/dvips/updmap': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing pxfonts (--remove): subprocess

PDF presentation from LaTeX: TexPower? Prosper?

2003-03-23 Thread Glen Snyder
Hi all. I'm using Sarge, and need to put together a presentation that will be burnt on a CD, and taken to a conference where it will be loaded in Acrobat and projected on a screen. The samples in TexPower (already PDFs) look pretty cool, but if I try running the sample tex file, and then viewing

setlocale comma decimal question: GRACE and GMT

2003-01-21 Thread Glen Snyder
I am using Debian sarge, and have two applications which I use to create maps (GMT, Generic Mapping Tools) and plots (GRACE). The problem I have is that a journal that I am submitting to requires the use of a comma instead of a point for the decimal. The data I am inputting into the two programs

ghostscript, apsfilter, and SMB/WIN client question

2002-12-31 Thread Glen Snyder
Hi all, Happy New Year. Thought I'd finish out the year with one newbiesque question. At work, I'm trying to print from my Debian box (woody) on a Lexmark Optra M412 (a postscript compatible laser printer) connected to a networked Windows machine. I'm presently using apsfilter and lpr (although I

Woody install on old PC

2002-06-03 Thread Glen Snyder
I salvaged an old PC166 (48 Mb ram, 6 Gb hd) from the trash bin, and plan to use it as a server in a home network. I started the install with an unofficial woody disk. Several anticipated issues with old BIOS (in this case 1994 AMI BIOS AP5C R1.4) are problems with large partitions, and the fact

SSH probs solved (was: SSH2 packet error..)

2002-03-29 Thread Glen Snyder
Thanks for the tips, Colin. I reinstalled open-ssh.I was wondering why the SSH2 bug reports were so old. My main motivation for installing SSH2 was that I log into a mail server at work that uses the commercial SSH2 version. Anyway, after messing around with ssh-keygen in openssh on my client

Re: SSH probs solved (was: SSH2 packet error..)

2002-03-29 Thread Glen Snyder
I first created the key pair using #ssh-keygen -t dsa, (Note, unless you leave the name of the keys id_dsa, you'll have to use -i to identify the keyname with ssh when you connect) Then I converted to a SSH2 key with # ssh-keygen -x |my_dsa.pub I copied my_dsa.pub to the host computer in my

[Fwd: Re: SSH probs solved (was: SSH2 packet error..)]

2002-03-29 Thread Glen Snyder
Oops, the line should have been: # ssh-keygen -x my_dsa.pub -glen ---BeginMessage--- I first created the key pair using #ssh-keygen -t dsa, (Note, unless you leave the name of the keys id_dsa, you'll have to use -i to identify the keyname with ssh when you connect) Then I converted to a SSH2

SSH2 packet too long error

2002-03-24 Thread Glen Snyder
After upgrading my maching to woody (After many tips on x-config from other users--thanks) I decided to go from ssh to ssh2 protocol, since the mail server at work uses this. It works fine and I can connect to the server, use scp, etc. Now I want to use sshd2 to login to my machine remotely. I

Help!!!Can't get X running with Radeon7000pci or Voodoo3 2000 agp

2002-03-18 Thread Glen Snyder
I'm still trying to get X-Free86 running on a woody box with either a Voodoo 2000 agp or a Radion7000pci. I am running Woody with XFree86-4. I've tried recompiling kernel 2.4.18 using make-kpkg and have versions without agp support, without agp or DRI support and with both installed or as modules.

Re: Help!!!Can't get X running with Radeon7000pci or Voodoo3 200

2002-03-18 Thread Glen Snyder
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, timothy bauscher wrote: Try this as root: mv /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config.SAVE cp -f /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Hope that helps. (==timothy==) Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately it didn't work. I've tried several combinations, as well

XF86Config-4 and Voodoo3 2000 agp botchup

2002-03-17 Thread Glen Snyder
I upgraded a machine at work to Woody. No problem at the start, gdm runs fine, but both KDE and Gnome (Debian) crash on startup. I also recompiled the kernel to 2.4.18 and installed DRI and agppart, but not improvement. It looks like XFree86 probes the card ok: ---cut (II) Bus -1

Debian on a Walmart Microtel???

2002-03-11 Thread Glen Snyder
Walmart Microtel PCs were recently touted as an alternative for Linux users, since you can now purchase them at a lower cost without the OS. My neighbor was asking about them and we checked the web page. I didn't recommend it, since there is not much info on the hardware. Nor can we seem to find

Woody flavors

2002-01-20 Thread Glen Snyder
I was wonderingas far as I can tell there are 5 Woody flavors, yet the unofficial cd-image mirrors seem to have 8 raw (iso) files. Could someone set me straight on this (since the readme doesn't help much in the way of outlining the general cd contents. ). I guess all of the different

Re: LaTeX problem

2002-01-17 Thread Glen Snyder
Thanks for the tips. Here is what I have figured out (and I still don't know why) but it may explain why some have reproduced this problem, and others haven't. -The problem only exists if you use \maketitle (If I comment out \maketitle, then placing \pagestyle{empty} before \begin{document}

LaTeX problem

2002-01-15 Thread Glen Snyder
I'm using LaTeX from the Woody distrothere seems to be a bug (or I am doing something wrong). If I use \documentclass{article} and then use \pagestyle{empty} , it still insists on putting a page number on the bottom of the first page (although numbers are not on subsequent pages) when I

Re:Nautilus in Woody Questions:Solved!

2001-12-22 Thread Glen Snyder
Thanks for the tips. I was running gmc at the same time as Nautilus was drawing the desktop.this leads to annoying double icons. As soon as I removed gmc from the session, the problem went away. Looking forward to nautilus-mozilla in woody. -Glen

Nautilus in Woody Questions

2001-12-19 Thread Glen Snyder
I installed Nautilus from testing, and let it redraw the desktop. I'm using sawfish with gnome. Nautilus drew some nice icons with sym-links. Anyway, it threw the icons underneath the Sawfish icons, so it looks lousy. I tried deleting the old icons, but they reappear when I login. I can't seem

Re: woody openssh quandary

2001-12-05 Thread Glen Snyder
Pete Harlan wrote: When you say the work machine has ssh and ssh2 installed, do you mean openssh version 2 and non-free ssh2, or is the ssh something else? In any case, the nonfree ssh2 uses a different format for the dsa keys than the openssh version does, so you can't just blindly copy the

woody openssh quandary

2001-11-28 Thread Glen Snyder
The mailserver at my work has both ssh and ssh2 installed. I do not have any problem using ssh with a key generated with ssh-keygen on my woody box at home to check my mail at work. I figured I would try dsa though, and that's where I have problems. If I use ssh-keygen -t dsa at home to

acroread,xpdf hassle

2001-11-15 Thread Glen Snyder
I've only seen this problem on one computer I use at work, which is running potato. If I try to open a pdf with acroread, the text repeats itself and then wraps over onto itself, making the document unreadable (this is with any pdf file). If I try to advance to another page, it locks up, crashes,

RE: acroread,xpdf hassle

2001-11-15 Thread Glen Snyder
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 15:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15-Nov-01 Glen Snyder wrote: I've only seen this problem on one computer I use at work, which is running potato. If I try to open a pdf with acroread, the text repeats itself and then wraps over onto itself, making the document

evolution and woody

2001-08-26 Thread Glen Snyder
Any word on if evolution will move over to testing any time soon (Or is it frozen out of woody for the time being?)??

Re:latex docu

2001-08-25 Thread Glen Snyder
A really beautiful app for LaTeX documentation in texdoctk. It provides a centralized menu for all of the documentation and opens all of the documentation files regardless of whether they are tarred, as dvis, etc. I could find documentation there that I didn't even know I had. Unfortunately,

Re: Help! All thumbs with prosper and/or seminar.sty in LaTeX

2001-08-10 Thread Glen Snyder
Thanks for the tipsI ran out of time on the project, but will try prosper next time around. Fortunately, I was able to get my overhead slides put together with the seminar class. A few things that worked for me (perhaps they will work for you with the prosper class as well) Once I made the tex

Re: Help! All thumbs with prosper and/or seminar.sty in LaTeX

2001-08-03 Thread Glen Snyder
I've tried a number of examples of both the prosper and the seminar style on the debian woody distibution. I think the problem has to do with page rotations, somehow. With prosper: I cannot create a pdf with dvipdfm, the image is just white with tkdvi or xgdvi. I can use a2ps and I get a

Help! All thumbs with prosper and/or seminar.sty in LaTeX

2001-08-02 Thread Glen Snyder
Hi. Has anyone produced transparencies using the version of prosper class in Debian testing . I've tried both the example in prosper and the examples in seminar and I have a problem with things bleeding of the page when I run latex, and then bizarre scrunched up ouput when I run tkdvi and no

Re: soundblaster sb 16

2001-07-24 Thread Glen Snyder
Markus Hansen wrote: Glen Snyder wrote: If it's any help, I have an ISA sb16, and haven't had any problem with it. I just recompiled the kernel, and enabled Sound Card Support, OSS sound modules, then selected 100% sound blaster compatibles -Glen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

gdm and xdm contd.

2001-07-23 Thread Glen Snyder
I guess I'll rephrase the question. I can't start gnome using gdm or xdm under a clean install of Woody that I just did. The screen goes black, then returns to the menu. Since the login menu displays ok and the curser moves fine, I don't think it is a problem with my xf86config. Any idea which

Re: soundblaster sb 16

2001-07-23 Thread Glen Snyder
If it's any help, I have an ISA sb16, and haven't had any problem with it. I just recompiled the kernel, and enabled Sound Card Support, OSS sound modules, then selected 100% sound blaster compatibles -Glen

gdm and xdm question

2001-07-22 Thread Glen Snyder
I recently added a usb-mouse to a Linux box and decided to do a clean reinstall with an unofficial woody image, and an upgrade to the 2.4.6 kernel. (This turned out to be much more difficult than just doing a dist-upgrade to testing from potato that I had done on another computer). Anyway, the

Re: Problems moving to Woody

2001-05-21 Thread Glen Snyder
99% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, TEMPLATES check 3. E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt I do not know what to do now.

Diagrams with Dia: Help!

2001-05-04 Thread Glen Snyder
Has anyone been able to get dia to work worth a darn? I've tried it on two machines, one with woody and the other with potato. I've tried both dia-gnome and dia. I can draw just fine, can save it as a dia file, and can export as and eps file. When I try to open the dia file again, the sketch is

Searching for an elusive Gnome

2001-04-21 Thread Glen Snyder
version, but exists in the database...blah blah blah. Suggestions on how I can reinstal Gnome will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance, Glen Snyder

Woody probs with kdelibs3

2001-04-21 Thread Glen Snyder
Hi again. I did another apt-get update (hoping that task-gnome-apps would turn up again). Now I get an error with apt-get dist-upgrade: Unpacking kdelibs3 (from .../kdelibs3_4%3a2.1.1-7_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.1.1-7_i386.deb (--unpack): trying

Re: Woody nukes Gnome

2001-04-11 Thread Glen Snyder
If I purge all of the ximian and helix files, that's practically every application I use99 packages not to mention the others that will probably be removed because of dependency problems. Debian Woody sets up gnome 1.0.56 Ximian Woody has installed 1.2.11 for some time now. I think an

Woody nukes Gnome

2001-04-10 Thread Glen Snyder
Just did an apt-get dist-upgrade I'm using Woody, and have not had any problem with ximian's Debian install of Gnome for the past couple months, until now. The upgrade trashes Gnome big time, as well as Sawfish, Gnumeric, you name it... It was something in the upgrade that was added just

HP Scanjet4200C

2001-04-10 Thread Glen Snyder
Hi Brian, I have had a 4200c for over a year now, and it took me quite awhile to get it working with Debian. Here's what I had to do: Go to Sourceforge and download the SANE drivers as tarballs. Download a patch for the 4200c and apply it to the SANE driver. Install the Patched SANE driver (I

Re: GMT problems

2001-04-03 Thread Glen Snyder
I use GMT quite a bit on Debian, but I used the install script from gmt.soest.hawaii.edu I had to edit .bashrc to get it to work, as follows: #gmt variables export NETCDFHOME=/usr/local/src/netcdf-3.4 export GMTHOME=/usr/local/src/GMT3.3.6 export PATH=$PATH:$GMTHOME/bin Your directories may be

gnome-apt and free-amp in woody

2001-03-28 Thread Glen Snyder
Hi all. gnome-apt and freeamp seem to have dropped out of testing for the time being. Has anyone who is running woody tried using dpkg to install either of these from sid or are there dependency problems? I guess I could live without themjust wondering though. Thanks, Glen

gnome-pilot conduits on woody

2001-03-11 Thread Glen Snyder
I've just started playing around with my Palm Pilot using gnome-pilot. Gnome-calendar looks good, GnomeCard would be better if the addresses could be integrated into the address list of some internet mail client. Does Woody have a decent mail client, where I could transfer mail on and off the

Re: Modem Supra Express 56i

2001-03-06 Thread Glen Snyder
The ISA Supra Express 56i cards work, PCI cards don't. See: http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/20010302a.html I have an ActionTec PCI call waiting card that works (It took a bit of tweaking, but their web page explains how). Generally speaking, external serial modems are more compatible , as are

Re: 2 Woody probs: Cron wants mrtg, and apt-get error

2001-03-05 Thread Glen Snyder
My /etc/cron.d/mrtg reads: 0-55/5 * * * * root if [ -x /usr/bin/mrtg ]; then /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg.cfg; fi mrtg exists, but if I type mrtg under su, it says bash: /usr/bin/mrtg: No such file or directory Should I just comment out the line in /etc/cron.d/mrtg? I am using a standalone box with a

apt-get and dpkg broken

2001-03-05 Thread Glen Snyder
Hi again. Sorry to pester about this. apt-get does not work with testing (Woody) for me anymore. Nor does dpkg. The problem is with dpkg-preconfigure, I think. If I try an apt-get dist-upgrade, it exits with this message: /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory E:

Re: apt-get and dpkg broken

2001-03-05 Thread Glen Snyder
Joey Hess wrote: Glen Snyder wrote: Hi again. Sorry to pester about this. apt-get does not work with testing (Woody) for me anymore. Nor does dpkg. The problem is with dpkg-preconfigure, I think. If I try an apt-get dist-upgrade, it exits with this message: /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg

2 Woody probs: Cron wants mrtg, and apt-get error

2001-03-04 Thread Glen Snyder
Problem #1:I've been running Woody without much of a problem for a couple of months. Yesterday I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.2, and every 5 minutes I get the following message added to mail: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] if [ -x

woody and freeamp

2001-02-24 Thread Glen Snyder
I noticed that free-amp is listed in under testing if I use Search Package Directories on the web. The link to the download, however goes to potato, rather than testing. If I do an apt-get install freeamp my sources list (testing main contrib non-free) cannot find freeamp, since it is listed in

Kernel upgrade question: apt-kpkg??

2001-02-24 Thread Glen Snyder
I've upgraded my kernel before, with the ususal procedures. I noticed in Debian Planet http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/sections.php?op=viewarticleartid=4 the suggestion that it is better after using make menuconfig or make config to make a kernel package from the kernel_image, using

Re: Perl warning on woody apt-get revisited

2001-02-11 Thread Glen Snyder
Just one more newbie question. If I run perl -V:d_setlocale using the gnome desktop, I get the error messages: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = c I don't have this problem if I login

Perl warning on woody apt-get revisited

2001-02-10 Thread Glen Snyder
I still get warnings when using apt-get. I've tried using dpkg to install perl-5.6 and perl-5.6-base. It does not remove perl-5.005. If I try to do dpkg -r or apt-get-remove with perl-5.005, I have all sorts of dependency problems. So I have both perl versions installed. Do I have to force a

RE: XF 4.0 PROBLEMS

2001-02-05 Thread Glen Snyder
You probably don't want to mix release versions (In other words, if you are going to use woody, then you should have all of your sources pointing to woody or testing). I had the exact same message as you, and fortunately someone was able to help me out last month First you want to do an apt-get

perl:warning: on apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-02-04 Thread Glen Snyder
, Glen Snyder Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 /5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/ local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5 .) at /usr/share/console/getkmapchoice.pl lin e 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr

No libforms0.89 - no Lyx

2001-02-01 Thread Glen Snyder
Thanks to Mike for the tip that got the X4 upgrade in testing working for me. I'm a happy camper again. I also noticed that Lyx was removed during a recent upgrade in testing. I tried to reinstall it but found that it requires libforms0.89 Since Lyx is (in my opinion) one of the best document